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6028 km on 15 Watts (POTA activation ES-2126)
This is my report from POTA activation ES-2126. During a visit to Mallorca, I activated a new park, ES-2126 Puig de Ses Fites Natura. I activated it from the walking route. The walk-in was a 1 hour easy walk along the track. Set-up was very quick and I was QRV in approx. 5-6 minutes. After…
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Fusing your mobile radios for portable operation.
I’ve gotten more and more active in mobile and portable radio activities over the last few months. I started off with my KX3 and the internal 8 x AA battery compartment. With this option transmit power is limited to 10W, and transmit time is greatly reduced. I then moved onto a LiFePo4 battery (7Ah) which…
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Mr. Porky’s…”high in protein”! 😂
Hmmm…such tasty protein. Seasoned pork rinds ingredients: – pork rind – pork fat – salt – monosodium glutamate – hydrolysed soya protein. Yummmmm. – rusk contains wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin, salt – dextrose Yummmmm. Hydrolysed soya protein. 🤤🤤
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Pota park-to-park!
This time I was able to set up my station, enjoy sandwich (Ham! Coleslaw! Wholemeal bread!) sitting at a park bench. Better day today! Lots of activity, but lots of QSB. A lot of loud, clear stations running beams, 100W. 20M conditions were good, but signals fading a lot again. Stations from Germany (DL4VER field…
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Still no dice…
This is the third day experimenting with my KX3. I’m getting faster at the SOTABEAMS endfed antenna setup and teardown (about 5mins and 3mins). Today there was a lot of QSB. Across 20M and 40M, I heard France (TM16FF, TM14JO, TM14IR), Italy (IQ0RU), Spain (EA7HTE), and Russian language stations. At times they were S +9,…
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Slow Horses
If you’re a fan of espionage, thriller, and depictions of farting on-screen, and you’ve not watched Slow Horses, you really should. It’s on the way to winning some awards. Farting included. It’s more The Sandbaggers than James Bond or any of that other nonsense. Highly recommended by me, and Vulture.com.
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This Week I Learned – Issue 3
Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering Lectures are online Professor Ross Anderson, of the Security Engineering book, has put his new Security Engineering Lecture videos online. The lectures cover the following topics – who security adversaries are, formal threat models and security policies, banking and payment security, security economics, security psychology (including usability), network security, hardware security,…
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This week I learned – Issue 2
By 2050 UX professionals will be 1% of world population In 2017, Jakob Nielsen of NN/g predicted that by 2050, there would be 100 million UX professionals worldwide (aka 1% of the population). God help us, I sincerely hope this is not the case. Book – Human-in-the-loop ML & AI Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Active learning…
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Halftime 8-12
Halftime, 8-12. Will the next post be as celebratory? 🤐🤐 #6nations #IreEng
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This Week I Learned About – Issue 1
The Shavian alphabet On Wednesday I saw a Toot in a beautiful script I did not recognise. It looked like this: 𐑣𐑩𐑤𐑴 𐑥𐑲 𐑯𐑱𐑥 𐑦𐑟 ·𐑚𐑼𐑯𐑸𐑛 Tyers. 𐑲 𐑤𐑲𐑒 ·𐑜𐑦𐑯𐑩𐑕, 𐑣𐑨𐑥 𐑕𐑨𐑥𐑢𐑦𐑗𐑦𐑟 𐑯 Tayto 𐑒𐑮𐑦𐑕𐑐𐑕. which says Hello my name is Bernard Tyers. I like Guinness, ham sandwiches and Tayto crisps. from the to Shavian…
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Citrus cake, take 2
Texture is muuuch better. It needs the full 40 mins. Also being on the bottom oven shelf. It’s a little burned on top, so temperature maybe needs to be 165° instead of 180°.
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Who is doing the work here?
The advertisements on London Transport seem to be focus on promoting: This advertisement for deliveroo – who is talking here? The language in this ad is mis-communicating the work needed, and who is actually doing the work. It reads like the conversation we’ve all had. Maybe between two people, a couple or housemates, who share…
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Mixing cooked rice
Beef bulgogi bibimbap for dinner, one evening in Nagomi Cheltenham. Bibimbap, Korean: 비빔밥. The term bibim means “mixing” and bap is cooked rice.
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Let the mystery be
Iris Dement – vocals & guitar Russ Barenberg – guitar Jay Ungar – fiddle Molly Mason – bass Donal Lunny – bouzouki (Do yourself a favour and read the comments.) Let the Mystery Be Iris DeMent Everybody is wondering what and where they all came from Everybody is worrying ’bout Where they’re gonna go when…
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The Anti-Javascript Javascript Club
The Anti-Javascript Javascript Club. #fosdem2024 #anti-javascript
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RIP Ciarán the colander
I’d like to notify you of the death of my good friend and kitchen colleague, Ciarán the colander. I first met Ciarán in Ikea, Dublin, about 15 years ago. He moved in with us and became a great asset to our kitchen. He then moved with us to London, and spent many years assisting us…
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The Anglo-Belgian Memorial, also known as Belgian Refugees Memorial, is a war memorial on Victoria Embankment in London, opposite Cleopatra’s Needle. It was a gift from Belgium, as a mark of thanks for assistance given by the UK during the First World War, and in particular for sheltering thousands of Belgian refugees who fled from…
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ActivityPub: Activated!
Ever since I heard about the fediverse, and once I understood what that meant (different web presences being able to interact with each other) I thought about starting to blog again. I’ve been WordPress user for many years. I’ve lost at least 2 or 3 blogs worth of posts over the last 20 odd years.…
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Up da Déise!
For all your county pride – Irish Socksciety. You can show you love your county too.
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Nanook country..
Well the fur trapper Stood there With his arms outstretched Across the frozen white wasteland Trying to figure out what he’s gonna do About his deflicted eyes And it was at that precise moment that he remembered An ancient Eskimo legend Wherein it is written On whatever it is that they write it on up…
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Landscape Photography of the year
An exhibition of Landscape Photography of the Year 2022 in Manchester Piccadilly train station.
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Long bullets in Fenor, Christmas 2022
With thanks to Liam, and everyone in Fenor Road Bowling Club.
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RIP Bishop Desmond Tutu
Y es de verdad, pero no sé que pasapor la república sudafricanaNelson Mandela, está entre rejasy han concedido un Premio Nobel de la pazA Desmond Tutu.Y hablan de represión, contra mineros,contra obreros y estudiantes negros, y es de verdadla resistencia está entre rejasY han concedido un Premio Noble de la paz: (Ja, Ja)A Desmond Tutu.
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November Twilight
Now Winter at the end of dayAlong the ridges takes her way, Upon her twilight round to lightThe faithful candles of the night. November Twilight by Bliss Carman
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San Fermín 2021 🕰️ 🕰️
Ya falta menos. (Copyright César Oroz Martija – La Tira de Oroz. Si tienes dinero compra unos libros y posters.)
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The Hello Machine
When I worked in telecommunications (late 2000’s) Electronic Switching Systems had been pretty much taken over by software switching systems, but the proprietary hardware, closely coupled to the software, was still very much an important component. While the call switching and routing was no longer achieved by thousands and thousands of hardware relays switching dedicated…
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Today’s #WorkMusic: Foghorn Stringband – Complete Concert Film
Set One Set Two Buy their music, and t-shirts, and stickers and tea-towels. And when you’re finished that, listen to some Caleb Klauder and his country band music.